From my Ellibrarory #1
I’m rereading the books by James Ellroy which I have in the bookshelf. Might do an audibook or two as well. The plan is to read Brown’s Requiem up to Killer on the Road with LA53, My dark places, Widespread panic, The enchanters and alike spread out inbetween and then read The Black Dahlia, Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid, Cold six thousand, Blood’s a rover, Perfidia, This storm and Red Sheet, and hopefully be done in time for the next Fred Otash book is released. The last of the ongoing LA Quintet.
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And without further ado, here’s a lil review of Brown’s Requiem. The first book by James Ellroy.
I finished it a couple a nights ago and I think it stands as a quite strong debut. Alcoholic repo man and private eye Fritz Brown gets hired by a loon called Fat dog to surveil his sis Jane. A hot girl who plays the cello. Fritz takes the job and gets besotted by her and ends up in the kind of trouble you need a shotgun to solve. Things go south, and not only to Mexico. A fun little story which holds alot of love for classical music, poetry and golf. So much so, the way characters continues to discuss those topics, it almost felt like reading a Haruki Murakami book at times.
I’ve read pretty much everything James has written and while this is not a book of his which I return too often (I’ve only read it twice before this time) it’s one I found very interesting to see how his writing started. While not a prose as outrageous and on fire as the one he writes nowdays, at times it felt like it was not far. Clearly a book he had to write before being capable of pulling off Black Dahlia.
A book I’ll rate 3 golf balls out of 5.
